"Singapore’s zero-tolerance policy doesn’t distinguish between casual drug users and those with an addiction. And although punishment is no longer front and centre of the system, Singapore retains draconian practices - including a legal requirement for doctors to report patients to the authorities if they disclose use of narcotics. This may well deter people from getting help with problematic drug dependency."

#LindaPressly, 2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx251p55le8o

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#drugs #prohibition #Singapore

As a rule, I'm against public shaming. But sometimes people shame themselves publicly.

Take this human regression algorithm, promoting cold turkey, 1 strike, drug a addiction treatment. Which has been shown to have terminal overdose rates as high or higher than having no treatment at all;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2e471159vo

Prohibition and other judgmental criminal justice approaches to drug regulation have failed, consistently, for generations. Catch up.

#drugs #prohibition

Look, this isn't rocket science: if the government makes it impossible for asylum seekers to work legally, how did they think they were going to work?

As the US discovered during Prohibition, if you make something illegal, it doesn't stop happening, it just gets runs by organised crime.

Legalising work would help asylum seekers, help the economy, increase tax revenue, and cut off a valuable income stream for organised crime gangs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mx99ple17o

#UKPolitics #Asylum #Prohibition

The 16 Oct edition of The Elephant covered the controversy over allowing under-14s in contact sports;

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/experts-call-for-ban-on-contact-sports-for-under-14s-as-brain-injury-evidence-mounts-the-elephant/4CHVNSPLNNHTBPJ5DUQGRYKBNA/

When you get to the Mum justifying the regular knocks to the head her son's sport involves, I want you to imagine that she's talking about letting the same under-14 year old son drink alcohol. Would those same rationalisations and whattaboutisms fly in that case?

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#podcasts #NZHerald #TheElephant #ContactSports #prohibition

Look, this isn't rocket science: if the government makes it impossible for asylum seekers to work legally, how did they think they were going to work?

As the US discovered during Prohibition, if you make something illegal, it doesn't stop happening, it just gets runs by organised crime.

Legalising work would help asylum seekers, help the economy, increase tax revenue, and cut off a valuable income stream for organised crime gangs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mx99ple17o

#UKPolitics #Asylum #Prohibition